★ A splendid and beautifully toned stater from Berge (?) ★

THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION. Berge (?). Circa 525-480 BC. Stater (Silver, 21 mm, 9.91 g). Ithyphallic satyr standing right, grasping right wrist of nymph fleeing to right with his right hand and supporting her chin with his left; above, pellet. Rev. Rough incuse square divided diagonally. AMNG III, 14 ('Lete'). HGC 3.1, 531. Peykov A0020. Psoma p. 61 ('Berge'). SNG ANS 957 ('Lete'). Svoronos, HPM, 16. Traité I, 1569 ('Lete'). Beautifully toned and unusually well preserved, a splendid example of this wonderful archaic issue. Extremely fine.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52, 7 October 2009, 93, Nomos FPL, Winter-Spring 2008, 16, Triton VI, 14 January 2003, 134 and The New York Sale IV, 17 January 2002, 121.